How to Use the People Feature in the Photos App on iPhone

It is not uncommon to find pictures of family, friends, or acquaintances in your phone’s image gallery. Most times, it is convenient to have one person’s phone take all the pictures when you’re with them. Then the images get sent to the other people. Instead of manually sorting through your photos gallery for who needs to receive which picture or sorting out memories with people, iPhone does that automatically.

The Photos app on iPhone can recognize faces in photos and sort them into a People album. Each unique face in the Photos app gets a separate album dedicated to them. Here’s how you can use the People feature in the Photos app. Before you begin, it’s recommended that your iPhone runs that latest iOS version for the features to work without issues.

How to Find the Photos of a Specific Person in the Photos App on iPhone

The Photos app on iPhone sorts the faces of people featured in your images into specific albums. Here’s how to use find the photo of a specific person:

Step 1: Tap the Photos app on your iPhone to launch it.

Step 2: At the bottom of the screen, tap the Albums icon.

Step 3: Scroll down to the People & Places section.

Step 4: Tap the People Album

Step 5: Tap the face of a person to see all the photos they feature in.

How to Fix Wrongly Identified People in the Photos App on iPhone

While the Photos app on iPhone may be able to identify faces and create specific albums for them, it may not be accurate. Sometimes, the wrong face may feature in someone else’s album. Here’s how to fix it.

Step 1: Tap the Photos app on your iPhone to launch it.

Step 2: At the bottom of the screen, tap the Albums icon.

Step 3: Scroll down to the People & Places section.

Step 4: Tap the People Album.

Step 5: Tap the face of a person to see all the photos they feature in.

Step 6: Tap Select.

Step 7: Tap Show Faces.

Step 8: From the images, tap a wrongly identified face to select it.

Step 9: At the bottom-right corner of the screen, tap the More icon (three horizontal dots).

Step 10: Tap the ‘This is Not This Person’ option from the menu that pops open.

How to Merge the Photos of the Same Person in Your People Album

The Photos app on iPhone may create multiple albums for one person. To merge all the photos into one group, here’s what you need to do:

Step 1: Tap the Photos app on your iPhone to launch it.

Step 2: At the bottom of the screen, tap the Albums icon.

Step 3: Scroll down to the People & Places section.

Step 4: Tap the People Album.

Step 5: Tap the Select button at the top-right corner of the People album.

Step 6: Select the face of the people you want to merge.

Step 7: Tap Merge at the bottom-right corner of the screen.

Step 8: Tap Yes to confirm that the faces belong to the same person.

How to Remove a Person From Your People Album

The Photos app on iPhone creates People albums based on the unique faces in your photos gallery. This means a random picture of a stranger may also have a separate album. Here’s how you can remove a person from your people album.

Step 1: Tap the Photos app on your iPhone to launch it.

Step 2: At the bottom of the screen, tap the Albums icon.

Step 3: Scroll down to the People & Places section.

Step 4: Tap the People Album.

Step 5: Tap the Select button at the top right of the People album.

Step 6: Tap the face of a person you want to remove.

Step 7: Tap the Remove button at the bottom-left corner.

How to Favorite People in Your People Album

Several faces may feature in your Photos App. Therefore, to make it easier to find pictures of people you interact with the most, you can favorite them. Here’s how to do so:

Step 1: Tap the Photos app on your iPhone to launch it.

Step 2: At the bottom of the screen, tap the Albums icon.

Step 3: Scroll down to the People & Places section.

Step 4: Tap the People Album.

Step 5: Tap the heart icon next to the person’s photo.

Adding Names to Faces in the Photos App on iPhone

The People feature on the Photos app on iPhone makes it easy to navigate through thousands of images within a few minutes. However, a faster way to browse images would be through the search feature on the Photos app. If you add names to the people albums, it becomes easy to use the search feature to browse through your image gallery.